Horse-collar.



G. A. RUDD.

HORSE COLLAR. APPLICATION HLED AUG.2,19I5.

1,176,249. Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

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GEORGE ARTHUR RUDD, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

HORSE-COLLAR.

To an whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. Rnumza subject of the King of Great Britain,.re-

siding in the city of Toronto, countyof York, Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Collars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means adaptable for use with either long or short straw collars to produce a depression at the throat to relieve pressure on the horses windpipe. My aim is to provide for this purpose means which may be readily applied either during or after the construction of the rest of the collar which will effectively produce the effect desired and in a permanent manner.

I attain my obiect by providing a plate which is bent to the desired shape either before or during the manufacture of the collar and which is suitably secured to the casing of the collar to hold the latter in thedesired shape.

The specific preferred arrangement of the plate and the securing means are hereinafter more specifically described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a front View of a horse collar provided with my improvements; Fig. 2 an enlarged cross section through the throat portion of a collar provided with my improvements; Fig. 3 a detail partly in section showing the lower plate of the atta chment in front elevation; Fig. 4 a plan view of the plate of the connecting clip; Fig. 5 a plan view of the lower plate of the attachments; and Fig. 6 a perspective View of the seam covering plate of the attachment.

In the drawings like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

The horse collar is in its main features of ordinary construction, 1 being the rim and 2 the body, the usual groove for the hanies being formed exteriorly between the two. It will be noted particularly on reference to Figs. 1 and 2 that at the center of the throat portion of the collar a marked depression is formed. This depression is caused and is maintained by means of the attachments I will now describe. 7

4 is a plate suitably curved to give the required dip. This plate is secured in place either inside or outside the casing of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 21, rain.

Application filed August 2, 1915. Serial No. 43,229.

' collar at the outer side of the throat portion. T he 'plate is shown as applied to the exterior surface of the casing in the drawings and is fitted in the groove between the rim and throat. This plate 4- is suitably secured in place preferably by through fastenings. A preferred construction is shown in the drawings comprising a plate 3 fitted to the inner surface of the throat. and a clip comprising-the plate 5 and the bolts 6. The plate 4 is provided with the lugs 7 preferably, though not necessarily, formed as part of a separate clip'9 fitted to the plate 4, which is preferably an L-angle in cross section. The bolts 6 pass through the plate 5, the plate 3 and the collar and are set up on the lugs 7 by means of suitable nuts 8. The bolts are preferably pointed to enable them to be forced through the collar.

The plates 4 and 5 which are chiefly instrumental in the shaping of the collar are thus securely held in position relative to one another, and the dip in the throat of the collar is thus formed and maintained. As the plate 3, which is of thin flexible material. may be carried well around the front of the rim 1 as shown, the collar may be formed with a seam at the throat which makes the collar much easier and cheaper to make. The plate 3 may, however, be dispensed with if the collar is not secured at the throat or if the appearance of the seam is not objectionablel The plate 4. being drawn close up into the groove between the rim and the body. does not interfere in any way with the attachment of the hames. and the presence of the projecting lugs on the clip 9 serves to prevent the hames fastening slipping out.

It will be understood of course that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the spirit of my invention, one of the principal features of which is the securing of a shapins Plate in a position at the throat of the collar to give the required dip therein and the drawing of the stuffed casing of the collar to the shape of the plate.

WVhat I c aim as my invention is:

1. A stuffed horse collar with a flexible casing having a nar ow curved metal plate applied to the outside of the casing at the outer side of the throat between the rim and throat of the collar and shaped to produce a. depression extending transversely of the casing to relieve pressure on the Windpipe of a horse Wearing the collar; a narrow plate applied tothe innerside ofthe casing and shaped to cooperate with the metal plate to form said depression; and connections passing through the collar connecting" the plates together at the middle of the throat portion of the collar. 7

2. A horse collar having a curved plate applied to the outside of the casing atthe outer side of the throat of the collar andshaped to produce a depression to relieve and provided with bolts adapted to pass through the collar; and lugs for the second nientionedplate on which thesaid bolts may he set .up.

3. A horse collar flexible at the throat and having a-curved plate applied exteriorly thereto and shaped to produce a depression to relieve pressure'on the Windpipe of the horse; and fastenings extending through the collar securing said plate in place compris= inglpointed bolts and nuts therefor. V

Signed ratlToronto, Canada, this 29th day of July 1915, in the presence of the twoum dersigned Witnesses. v r v GEORGE ARTHUR RUDD.

Witnesses:

GEORGE P. MAcKIE, H. MI ANDREWS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

